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Things fall apart
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307373212
- ISBN: 0307373215
- ISBN: 0307373215
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource - Edition: 50th anniversary edition.
- Publisher: [Canada] : Doubleday Canada, 2009.
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| Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from EPUB title page (OverDrive viewed, September 27, 2013). |
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| Subject: | Igbo (African people) -- Fiction Nigeria -- Race relations -- Fiction British -- Nigeria -- Fiction Men -- Nigeria -- Fiction British Igbo (African people) Men Race relations Nigeria |
| Genre: | Electronic books. Fiction. |
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- Random House, Inc.
The most widely read book in modern African literature tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around a fearless Igbo warrior in Nigeria in the late 1800s, before and after the European colonization of the continent.
âAfrican literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.â âToni Morrison
The first of these stories traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives, and in its classical purity of line and economical beauty it provides us with a powerful fable about the immemorial conflict between the individual and society. The second story, which is as modern as the first is ancient, and which elevates the book to a tragic plane, concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo's world through the arrival of aggressive, proselytizing European missionaries. These twin dramas are perfectly harmonized, and they are modulated by an awareness capable of encompassing at once the life of nature, human history, and the mysterious compulsions of the soul. THINGS FALL APART is the most illuminating and permanent monument we have to the modern African experience as seen from within.
Nominated as one of Americaâs best-loved novels by PBSâs The Great American Read.
